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WorksheetsColonial and the Middle Colonies Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 4hrs 10mins
By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was
Massachusetts
Virginia
New York
Pennsylvania
Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by
selling slaves to reduce productive labor.
selling land to reduce their volume of production
growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.
releasing unneeded indentured servants early.
By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their freedom
often gained great wealth as more land opened for settlement.
rarely returned to work for their masters.
almost always found high-paying jobs in the cities.
had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters.
Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by
young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land and find women to marry.
the planter class of Virginia.
those protesting the increased importation of African slaves.
people from Jamestown only.
The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was
the Virginia governor's refusal to retaliate against Indian attacks on frontier settlements.
the wealthy planter class losing control of the colony.
a shortage of indentured servants.
to halt the importation of African slaves.
As a result of Bacon's Rebellion
the economic aspirations of discontented backcountry frontiersmen was eased considerably.
planters sought African slaves to replace discontented backcountry fontiersmen as laborers.
Governor Berkeley was dismissed from office.
Nathaniel Bacon was named to head the Virginia militia.
All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America except
higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants.
planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies.
Americans rushed to cash in on the slave trade.
the development of wheat as a staple crop in the British colonies.
It was atypical of colonial New England adults to
marry late and have no children.
be unable to read and write.
arrive in New England unmarried.
live solitary lives.
All of the following elements characterize New England families in the eighteenth century EXCEPT
a longer life span than their seventeenth century predecessors.
the dread of death in birthing caused many women to fear pregnancy.
New Englanders tended to migrate as individuals rather than as families.
divorce was exceedingly rare.
The social glue that formed the basis of tightly knit New England society was
small villages and farms.
black slavery.
the wealthy planter-merchant class.
the royal charter.
The Puritan system of Congregational Church government logically led to
an authoritarian political government.
the early establishment of religious toleration.
democracy in political government.
the end of town meetings.
The Half-Way Covenant
allowed full communion for all nonconverted members.
strengthened the distinction between the elect and all others.
resulted in a decrease in church members.
allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church.
The Salem witchtrials were
a result of Roger Williams's activities.
the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachussetts.
caused by ergot in the Puritans' bread.
accusations made by the daughters of business owners.
During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were
property-owning women
from the ranks of poor families.
primarily un-Christian
women in their late teens.
The New England economy depended heavily on
slave labor
tobacco
fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.
rice production.
The work and family schedules of the overwhelming majority of early American colonists were set by
the cycles of the season and the sun.
the demands of commerical merchant employers.
the distinctive laws of each American colony.
the mothers and wives of American colonial fathers and husbands.
The New England Indians' only hope for resisting English encroachment lay in
intertribal unity against the English
acquiring English muskets.
building fortifications.
allying themselves with the Dutch.
As head of Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros was all of the following except
an able military man.
a Puritan.
concientious.
tactless.
The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York)
allowed only Dutch immigrants to settle there.
was established for its quick profit of fur trading.
tolerated Quakers from nearby Pennsylvania.
supported free speech and other democratic practices.
One of the traits that made Quakers unpopular in England was
their refusal to do military service.
the high pay given their clergy.
their support of slavery.
their violent treatment of their enemies.
Colonists in both the North and the South established differences in all of the following areas except
patterns of settlement
economies
political systems
values
allegiance to England
Colonists in both the North and the South established differences in all of the following areas except
patterns of settlement
economies
political systems
values
allegiance to England
In Calvinist thought, the "conversion" was
something experienced as a group
earned by a person's good works.
a Catholic heresy
a personal experience when God revealed an individual's heavenly destiny.
As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences continued to crystallize, most notably
the use of indentured serants
loyalty to England
the importance of slave labor in the South
the continuing rigidity of Puritanism
During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the following reasons except that
the Indian population proved to be an unreliable work force because they died quickly after contact with whites.
Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies.
in some areas families formed too slowly.
African slaves cost too much money.
